A thoroughly ruthless man, Jaeru had been a member of the Garks, or Desert Screamers, an order of rugged outdoorsmen who served the interests of Vaal Gark, for nearly forty years. He was a dangerous assassin and was dispatched by the Storm King himself to follow Manari to find the Seeing-stones of Ankatarë. He had trailed the young man for nearly eight months and had developed some impatience with his assignment. However, the orders of Akhôrahil were direct and firm, and crossing the Shadow in the South was a sentence of death. Jaeru's boredom had costed him a portion of his secrecy, since Karmarac was aware that there was an "interested" third party. The mistake motivated the Gark to reassert his caution. The assassin had two skilled underlings in his service, each intent on discovering t